Full Description
Hawksley and Georgeou bring together scholars and practitioners from across the region to analyse the main effects of the first two years of the COVID pandemic in a range of case studies from Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Oceania.
The book provides a broad survey of how Indonesia, Bangladesh, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Nepal, Australia, Cambodia, Taiwan, and New Zealand attempted to manage the COVID pandemic; the challenges they faced; and how they fared. Drawing on insights from politics, economics, sociology, law, public health, education, and geography, most authors are nationals of the cases they discuss. Written in non-specialist language, ten case studies are examined, providing a useful analysis of the first two years of COVID in the Asia-Pacific from the emergence of COVID in January 2020 to the lifting of restrictions in December 2021. Chapters focus on different issues according to the scholar's academic expertise, and a wide diversity of national pandemic experiences, challenges, and responses are showcased.
An essential read for scholars and students interested in the areas of Asia-Pacific politics, sociology, and public health.
Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Pandemic, States and Societies in the Asia-Pacific 2020-2021: Responding to COVID
Charles Hawksley
Nichole Georgeou
Chapter 2 Indonesia's response to the Covid-19 pandemic: from herbal cure-alls to a science-based response
Yohana Susana Yembise
Rob Goodfellow
Chapter 3 Pandemic, migrant workers and the economy of Bangladesh
Mamta B. Chowdhury
Chapter 4 Japan: Moralised politics in countering COVID-19
Yukiko Nishikawa
Chapter 5 Making sense of the behavioral restrictions and institutional controls: the Philippine COVID-19 experience
Leslie A. Lopez
Jessica Sandra R. Claudio
Dennis B. Batangan
Joselito T. Sescon,
Haraya Marikit C. Mendoza
Chapter 6 Vietnam: COVID-19 in Vietnam
Toan Dang
Chapter 7 Nepal: pandemic and unusual state response
Uddhab Pyakurel
Supriya Gurung
Chapter 8 Australia and COVID 19: Cracks in the Commonwealth
Charles Hawksley
Nichole Georgeou
Chapter 9 Taiwan: how COVID-19 sharpens Taiwanese identity
Tse-Min HUNG
Chapter 10 Cambodia: the thin line between development and human rights during
COVID-19
Natalia Szablewska
Muy Seo Ngouv
Ratana Ly
Chapter 11 Aotearoa New Zealand: is the grass really greener here? Social, political and cultural implications of COVID-19 in New Zealand
Christina Ergler
Nichole Georgeou
Sarah Lovell
Bob Huish
Conclusion
